Old Plantation Days is a memoir in the form of a letter that Nancy Bostick writes reflecting on her life on a plantation and her marriage and parenthood afterwa

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing the

Details the daily life and major events of the inhabitants, both free and slave of her plantation.

The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. M

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's exper